“The ovum of reality is the eternal or the universal. The
universal is that in which all partake, but it is eternally irreducible to
commonalities and affordances between all particular instances, collections of
multitudes, and local horizons of thought. It is neither bound in its local
expressions, nor is it exhaustible by any collection of multitudes; it is
simply free from the necessity of all its particular instances. The universal
is a sign free of meaning and significance, the so-called free sign of Peirce
that ramifies into its local contexts according to its global contingency, its
bottomlessness and uninterruptable continuity with itself. For
naturphilosophie, by virtue of its intensionality and self-reflexivity, the
universal is identified as the eternal. The eternal – understood
semio-logically by Peirce – is a modal plenum, an abyss replete with modalities
that can neither be reduced to the totality of infinite possibilities nor
determined in the first or the last instance by discrete actualities (marks of
difference, cosmological horizons, local conditions of life and thought, etc.)”
- Reza Negarestani, "Leper Creativity"
